"Shhhh quiet! I think they understand Mandarin!" - by @ThomasFrey
"Shhhh quiet! I think they understand Mandarin!" - by @ThomasFrey
Global Warming's Worst Case Projections seem increasingly likely - talk by Noam Chomsky
Networks: Weaving People, Ideas and Projects - overview by June Holley - @juneholley:
Introduction to Network Weaving - by June Holley:
Introduction to Network Leadership - presentation by June Holley
"It from Bit" - quote by John Archibald Wheeler. #ML
Every it — every particle, every field of force, even the spacetime continuum itself — derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely — even if in some contexts indirectly — from the apparatus-elicited answers to yes or no questions, binary choices, bits.
It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom — at a very deep bottom, in most instances — an immaterial source and explanation; that what we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe.
"Intelligence per kilowatt-hour" - talk by Max Welling at ICML 2018 (starts at 15min). #ML
Civilization starter kit - talk by Marcin Jakubowski on opensourceecology.
Interview with Marcin Jakubowski on Open Source Ecology
"From a car-friendly to a human-friendly city". Image shows work by the association for "verkehrspolitische Bewusstseinsbildung" in Salzburg Austria, which transforms parking-lots into green areas: http://www.fairkehr.net/ #Regenerative #ClimateChange #Politics
Simple flowchart. #Crypto
Anderson's Rule: "You cannot construct a database with scale, functionality & security because if you design a large system for ease of access it becomes insecure, while if you make it watertight it becomes impossible to use"
Coined by Ross J. Anderson. #InfoSec
The market cap of the top 5 S&P 500 companies: $4,095,058,706,432
The market cap of the bottom 282 S&P 500 companies: $4,092,769,755,136
A 16nW Wireless and Batteryless Sensor System with Integrated Cortex-M0+ Processor and Optical Communication for Cellular Temperature Measurement. - vs. A grain of rice
The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks Uncut (2012). Discussion Feat. Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmermann, and Jacob Appelbaum.
"We are now at the stage where the capacity of surveillance is doubling every 18 months. The ability to surveil everyone on the planet is going to occur sometime in the next 15 years" - Julian Assange
Anderson's Rule: "You cannot construct a database with scale, functionality & security because if you design a large system for ease of access it becomes insecure, while if you make it watertight it becomes impossible to use"
"Act always so as to increase the total number of choices" - Heinz von Foerster (1984). Comment: A good example of the kind of interesting sounding, but ultimately naive bibliomancy many of the cybernetics movement leaders engaged in.
While the west likes to point out how china & co are deeply engaged in heavy handed (internet) censorship to silence critics - the west is most certainly on par in capabilities & practices, just differs in style. While the analogy is flawed, it's 1984 VS Brave New World
"Filtering should be handled in the end user and in the end device of the end user" - Wau Holland
"The Not-Shopping List" (found via @bricktick http://bloglz.de/oshw-gift-economy/)
"How we will rid the oceans of plastic" - talk by @BoyanSlat, founder of https://www.theoceancleanup.com/ #ClimateChange #Regenerative
"Underestimating the power of gratitude – recipients of thank-you letters are more touched than we expect" - summary of a fascinating series of new psychological experiments, conducted at the University of Texas: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/07/18/underestimating-the-power-of-gratitude-recipients-of-thank-you-letters-are-more-touched-than-we-expect/